Since our launch in 2018, we’ve grown from our headquarters in Heidelberg and office in Berlin to serving more than 500,000 customers across Germany, Austria, and France. Backed by €120M from leading investors such as Earlybird, CommerzVentures, and Swiss Re, we’ve become one of Europe’s fastest-growing insurtechs.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our platform team with a double focus of building product features and helping maintain our infrastructure. Our Platform team’s mission is to keep our customers and operations teams happy by building the Insurance Platform parts of which are Policy Management, Claims and Operations systems.

As a Backend Engineer with a DevOps twist, you’ll focus on building features for our insurance platform, but also help take care of our infrastructure by owning Terraform, Kafka, Datadog and Qovery. This role involves a balance between coding on our insurance platform and DevOps work (a roughly 60/40 split).

• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to define and implement the vision for a scalable system architecture for our insurance platform that supports our growing portfolio and customer base.
• Own and help take care of our infrastructure which is set up to be serviceable by engineers but needs an owner who is passionate about good developer experience.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that promotes best practices and enables others.
• Explore and propose new technologies to streamline processes and improve system efficiency.
• Champion engineering best practices and help elevate our tech stack to the next level, setting standards for the organization.
• Create reusable solutions that help teams scale faster and avoid one-off workarounds.

• Experience: 5+ years of backend development experience, working on complex systems and platform solutions.

• DevOps Focus: Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS

• Strong passion for building, maintaining, and improving platform tooling, libraries, solutions, and processes that empower multiple engineering teams and enhance the overall developer experience.

• Ruby on Rails: Solid experience with Ruby on Rails and a deep understanding of how to develop high-quality, reliable software.

• Collaboration: Strong communicator, able to work across teams and translate technical vision into actionable plans.

• Problem-Solving: You can break down complex problems into manageable parts and communicate solutions clearly to your team and other stakeholders.

• Quality-Driven: Commitment to delivering solutions that are well-tested, reliable, and maintainable.

• Proven experience in fintech environments or startups is a plus.

• Distributed architecture of 10+ independent RESTful services

• Ruby on Rails

• PostgreSQL, Kafka, Sidekiq, Redis

• Terraform, Qovery (Kubernetes) and AWS

• Datadog

• Join us in Berlin or Heidelberg and be part of our hybrid culture, with the flexibility to work remotely.
• Be part of our growth journey through our Employee Stock Ownership Program (VSOPs), where you can claim your stake in the company and share in our success.
• Celebrate with us at regular team gatherings, including company strategy weeks, onsite events, local meet ups, seasonal celebrations, and after work socials.

• Monthly €50 flex benefit budget , allowing you to choose what suits you best – whether it’s the Germany Ticket, office lunches, remote setup, or company health insurance (bkV).
• Monthly Getsafe insurance voucher to safeguard what matters most to you.
• Workation for 90 days within the EU , giving you more freedom to balance work and travel.

• Balance: 30 vacation days – enjoy 28 regular days and 2 special days – your birthday and half days on December 24th & 31st.
• Growth: Benefit from our annual €1,000 development budget to invest in your personal and professional growth.

Getsafe is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.